Niva () is a weekly

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Belarusian language Belarusian (, ) is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language. It is one of the two Languages of Belarus, official languages in Belarus, the other being Russian language, Russian. It is also spoken in parts of Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Polan ...

published by the

Belarusian minority in Poland The Belarusian minority in Poland (; ) is composed of 47,000 people according to the Polish census of 2011.Przynależność narodowo-etniczna ludności – wyniki spisu ludności i mieszkań 2011'. GUS. Materiał na konferencję prasową w dniu ...

. The newspaper was founded in 1956 in

Białystok Białystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is the List of cities and towns in Poland, tenth-largest city in Poland, second in terms of population density, and thirteenth in area. Biał ...

for Belarusians living in Poland. Niva was an important factor uniting the Belarusian minority in the region. Chief editor is Eugeniusz Wappa.

History

The first issue of Niva was published on 4 March 1956. During the thaw of that year, a lot of national minority societies and their press organs were established in Poland. The circulation of the weekly oscillated from 10,000 in the 1960s to 2-3,000 today.

External links

Official website

References

Belarusian diaspora in Europe Weekly newspapers published in Poland Belarus–Poland relations Mass media in Białystok Newspapers established in 1956 {{Poland-newspaper-stub